And so to the very last day of this remarkable summer of sport.

BBC: The media and the Olympic Games

Sidebottom has excelled since becoming an established member of England's Test and one-day sides at the start of last summer.

BBC: England wait on Sidebottom injury

Solanki, 31, has played in 51 one-day internationals, the last in the summer of 2006 and also featured in England's Twenty20 squad in South Africa in September.

BBC: Solanki joins Indian rebel league

But I believe we will be able to give that assurance and I agree with you, it will be a good day when we can put all the brouhaha of last summer behind us in those areas.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

Sure, we have a couple of months of fair weather yet, and several more weeks of summer, but Labor Day is the last major summer holiday when friends and family gather around the hibachi, kettle grill, or gas grill, or whatever it is you cook on.

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After all, it was Sunday, one of the last of the summer, and a lovely one at that - a good day not to ask people to wait in long lines to pass through security checkpoints.

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Newton was a key figure in the Ashes-winning team of last summer, and scored two half centuries in a victorious one-day campaign in Sri Lanka which followed over the winter.

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In One Day at Fenway, Kettmann uses a single Saturday afternoon game from last summer to illustrate the intensity of the Yankees-Sox rivalry.

FORBES: Remaking The Red Sox

"Zero Dark Thirty" was in postproduction when the book "No Easy Day, " the first direct account by a member of the SEAL team, came out last summer.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Darren Lewis, RNLI lifeguard inspector for the east of England, said that despite last summer's poor weather, the beaches were still busy with day trippers and holiday makers.

BBC: Beach duties for RNLI lifeguards